What Max and I are going to do tomorrow

I'm sure she's going to hold nice and still for mama, lol! She's just too squirmy for a normal ruck, she tries to climb off before I can get her good and strapped in, but this one with the chest belt looks promising!

Prefold, in all its glory

I finished this last week, so figured I'd finally post a photo. Too bad it is too short, but still, I think a pretty good job for my first real sewing project! Particularly since bamboo velour is so hard to work with, it's thin and slippery and bunchy. Next time I'll measure better and think more about my seam allowances. I was just sorta winging it this time.

It's here, it's here!

I have been waiting on this Goodmama Wishbox for MONTHS. It's finally here! So soft and squishy and delicious! Max likes them too.

The house on a hill

Or, should I say IN a hill - Chapel Hill! Here's our new house, we close on April 30. Yay!

I sew!!

I'm learning to sew and have actually made a few things that function. First was some cloth wipes which turned out a bit more trapezoid-y than square, but they work. Then I embellished and trimmed a prefold diaper so that it was shorter to fit Max better and pretty. Then yesterday I started a bamboo prefold, from scratch! It's all cut and laid out, here's all the parts. I got the soaker sewn so today I need to finish it up!

Yes you CAN wash a Whoozit

I searched and searched and searched, to no avail. How do you clean a Whoozit anyway? I mean, the baby chews and sucks on the thing, it gets thrown around on the cat hair-ridden carpet, and lord knows what other bodily fluids are crusted on its various parts. So you would think a good scrubbin' from time to time would be helpful. I couldn't find any instructions so since I have two big ones (thanks Mindi!) I figured what's the worst that could happen? One is ruined and we have a spare. Turns out, it machine washes just fine. You may want to avoid a tumble dry though, plastic parts like the triangle may melt. Not that I would know that. But an afternoon in the sun is probably a better idea.

I am going to miss my fish.

Since we are moving to North Carolina, I have to sell most of what's in my precious fish tank. I am going to miss these guys! Not to mention my favorite corals and all that yummy rock swarming with coralline and little buggers. Sigh.

Where life takes you...

I remember when I was in high school, filling out my memory book, I put that by the time I was 25 I would be a married pharmacist, getting ready to have a baby. Here I am, 30 (on the edge of 31), married for 3 years, and a stay at home mom to our first child, my 8 month old gorgeous and hysterical daughter. Pharmacy? Nah, I changed my major after 2 semesters. I went into advertising, online mostly, and had a good run at Google for 4 years. Who knew? And now, after 8 years in the Bay Area, we are picking up and moving to North Carolina. On to the next phase of life!

Back then I would have never figured myself for a hippie dippy crunchy stay at home environmentalist high-tech momma, but that's what happened. So here we are and I figure it's about time I started blogging about my life, if only to make a life memory book as I started in high school!